arm64: Add page size to the kernel image header

This patch adds the page size to the arm64 kernel image header
so that one can infer the PAGESIZE used by the kernel. This will
be helpful to diagnose failures to boot the kernel with page size
not supported by the CPU.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K. Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Ard Biesheuvel 2015-10-19 14:19:36 +01:00 committed by Catalin Marinas
parent 4bf8b96ed3
commit 9d372c9fab
2 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions

View File

@ -104,7 +104,12 @@ Header notes:
- The flags field (introduced in v3.17) is a little-endian 64-bit field
composed as follows:
Bit 0: Kernel endianness. 1 if BE, 0 if LE.
Bits 1-63: Reserved.
Bit 1-2: Kernel Page size.
0 - Unspecified.
1 - 4K
2 - 16K
3 - 64K
Bits 3-63: Reserved.
- When image_size is zero, a bootloader should attempt to keep as much
memory as possible free for use by the kernel immediately after the

View File

@ -47,7 +47,10 @@
#define __HEAD_FLAG_BE 0
#endif
#define __HEAD_FLAGS (__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0)
#define __HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE ((PAGE_SHIFT - 10) / 2)
#define __HEAD_FLAGS ((__HEAD_FLAG_BE << 0) | \
(__HEAD_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE << 1))
/*
* These will output as part of the Image header, which should be little-endian